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Timothy Miller wrote: >> Wouldn't this pretty much guarantee worst-case latency scenario for >> reading, since >> on average at least one of your 32 disks is going to require a full >> rotation >> (and probably a seek) to find it's bit? > > > > Only for the first bit of a block. For large streams of reads, the > fifos will keep things going, except for occasionally as drives drift in > their relative rotation positions which can cause some delays. So how is that better than using a striping raid that stripes at the block level or multi-block level? Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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